A.Word.A.Day--dornick

2. Stout linen.
[After Doornik, the name of a Flemish town where the cloth
was first manufactured.]

-Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org)

"The Winter Olympics have ended without anyone's drawing a knife
and without anyone's tossing a dornick at Avery Brundage's balding
pate."
Arthur Daley; Olympic Afterthoughts; The New York Times; Feb 10, 1948.

X-Bonus

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the
letting of a little water. -Christopher Morley, writer (1890-1957)